Agent price index
What a dollar buys an agent
Median price per paid call, by category, from organic x402 and MPP payments. It runs from $0.001 for AI inference to $1 for Media, a factor of 1,000. The median is unchanged in 6 of 10 categories across the weeks shown.
Median price per paid call
Log scale · bar = 10th to 90th percentile · latest completed week · Embed this chart| Category | Median | 10th–90th | Weekly median | Calls, latest week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI inference / LLM | $0.001 | $0.001 – $0.0097 | 145,621 | |
| Commerce / cards / checkout | $0.002 | $0.002 – $0.02 | 74,023 | |
| Identity / verification | $0.005 | $0.005 – $0.005 | 28,515 | |
| Agent tooling / MCP | $0.0054 | $0.0019 – $0.02 | 9,878 | |
| Search | $0.007 | $0.002 – $0.013 | 51,395 | |
| Compute / storage | $0.01 | $0.01 – $0.01 | 713,724 | |
| Paywalled content / news | $0.01 | $0.01 – $0.01 | 214,180 | |
| Data APIs | $0.01 | $0.01 – $0.01 | new | 57,678 |
| Phone numbers / SMS | $0.01 | $0.001 – $0.5 | new | 284 |
| Trading / DeFi / market data | $0.02 | $0.02 – $0.02 | 696,252 | |
| Web scraping / crawling | $0.06 | $0.06 – $1 | 384 | |
| Media / image / video | $1 | $0.5 – $5 | 4,252 |
Our read
Stable medians across several weeks suggest services are not yet competing on price. We will say more only once the data shows a change.
How we count
Median of organic payments per category and week (Monday to Sunday, UTC), categories with at least 200 paid calls. Closed loops excluded. Methodology.
Data
Daily refresh. Same figures as JSON at /api/insights/prices, CC BY 4.0.